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2024 NFL Draft Preview: When Will Ohio State Stars Get Picked? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning for Thursday, April twenty fifth of IM your host
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  Tom Moore. The Akron game in one hundred and twenty eight days, the
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  game against Michigan in two hundred and nineteen days, The first round of the
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  NFL Draft happening later tonight up in Detroit. I'm going to be at least
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  one Buckeye here is hearing his name called tonight, and several more coming up
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  later on over the weekend. Wanted to talk about that put everything in a
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  little bit of historical context. I thought, who am I going to have
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  on to talk about this? And then someone handed me a post it note
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  that said Kevin Noon, no matter what. So I said, Okay,
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  well, I'm going to draft Kevin Noon talk about all of this stuff with
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  us. He actually, coincidentally, not quite quick with coincidentally wrote a really
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  interesting buy the Numbers piece at buckehuddle dot com about the NFL Draft. Kevin,
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  let's start at the top of the draft and that is where we're going
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  to see Marvin Harrison picked. As you wrote in your piece, five Ohio
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  state receivers have previously gone top ten. Does Marvin Harrison join them this today
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  and if he does, where is he headed? Yes? Thanks for watching
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  now. Yeah, I do think he is going to be the and not
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  only will he be will or will he join that group of Ted gin Junior,
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  David Boston, Terry Dlann, and Joey Galloway. I think that Marvin
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  Harrison Junior will have the highest spot with going number four to Arizona. I'm
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  just sitting here looking at my notes. Terry Glynn going seven in the ninety
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  six draft was the high water mark. I don't think that there's any way
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  that he slides past. For be quite honest, it would be a nice
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  reunion with Harris Johnson Junior who was there. This is one of those picks
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  that has been just kind of locked in for a long time when it looked
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  like it was just going to be quarterbacks. Off of the top one,
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  two, and three. Hasn't been a lot of drama here now. Of
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  course, the thing that we can't predict is does another team slide into that
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  number four pick. Do they trade with Arizona, does Arizona move down?
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  Does Arizona see value in multiple receivers, say we can get more draft capital,
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  we slide down to eight or ten or whatever. But if you're moving
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  up at that point, are there enough quarterbacks in the draft to really move
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  up there to slide Harrison out of that spot? Here at this point,
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  just hours before the draft, I'm going to say no, but I'm willing
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  to push my chips in that he will be a top ten pick. Yeah,
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  for sure, that feels like you could probably that You're probably not going
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  to get tremendous odds on Marvin Harrison being a top ten pick. That seems
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  pretty pretty safe. But we will find out again later tonight. And then,
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  yeah, I thought that was an interesting note. Dry Glenn the highest
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  drafted ohiosted receiver prior to potentially Marvin Harrison at seven overall. Here's another interesting
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  one. The last time ohis hit had a defensive player taken in the first
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  round of the NFL Draft was twenty twenty, So, Kevin, is that
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  something that might change this year? No, thanks for watching my call.
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  Is going to be the highest rate defensive Buckeye on the board. I have
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  not seen a single mock draft that has him in the first round. Quite
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  honestly, NFL dot Com has him in that two second to third round range.
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  I'm seeing a hell of a lot more third round than I'm seeing second
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  round when it comes to him. But you know it only it only takes
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  one team. And let's not forget that twenty twenty Plass had three defensive players
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  taken, with Chase Young two, Jeff Okuda three, and Damon Arnette surprisingly
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  number nineteen to the Raiders. Twenty twenty five will be what cures all of
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  that with players like Jack Sawyer and Denzel Burke and j T. Tuamoloau all
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  being draft eligible players, and I think that we see the streak end at
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  that point. But Mike Hall will not be a Night one pick. He
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  will be a Night two selection with the second and third rounds in my opinion.
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  And I think it goes a little bit to just show why Ohio State
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  has kind of run up against a little bit of a brick wall in some
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  years, that it's just not necessarily putting out the number of top end defensive
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  players. And when you're talking like a program like Ohio State that has more
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  first round picks than any other program in the country by a pretty nice margin,
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  it goes to show that they just haven't necessarily been the dudes that have
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  been considered to be the best of the best in in in draft capital.
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  So there's not a Bosa or a Young or somebody like that. But a
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  year from now, we'll be staying a different tune. Yeah, And I
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  do want to get to that a little later on that something that seems like
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  good news right now might not be good news long term, and something that
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  seems like bad news right now might not be bad news long term. We'll
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  get to that in a minute, but first I did want to ask you.
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  We're going to call this the Jordan Fuller Trophy. Who is the Ohio
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  State player who goes late and we'll just define that as like round four or
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  later for example. So who is the player this year that goes round four
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  or later and then turns into a really good, solid pro, maybe a
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  better player than you would expect based on where they were picked. Let's say
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  Tommy Eikenberg, because he was somebody. I mean, he is not the
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  most athletic linebacker in the draft. I think I think Tommy would be.
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  I mean, if Tommy talked that, he would probably agree with me at
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  that point. He might just brunt an agreement. But he is just your
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  old school throwback. You know this dislocated shoulder is getting in my way.
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  Just cut my damn arm off and put me back in there. Type of
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  player, I think that he is somebody that certainly could overplay what his draft
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  position is in my opinion. But the reality is is I kind of go
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  through a lot of the other guys that I'm looking at four or five,
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  sixty seven, and they all have their own challenges as well to make a
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  fifty three man roster. And you know, like I really like Xavior Johnson,
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  but I don't think he gets I don't think he gets selected. I
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  think he goes undrafted free agent. But what he is able to do in
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  his multifaceted approach makes him more valuable on a fifty three man roster, with
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  the ability to play special teams, ability to run the ball, to catch
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  the ball, to do a lot of things like that. Now, making
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  the fifty three is going to be a challenge coming in as an undrafted free
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  agent, but that it happens more than we talk about. But I'm going
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  to just say Tommy based on I've seen a lot of linebackers like him through
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  the years, and I know that we're seeing a shift again, and what
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  what your modern linebacker is looking like. But Tommy's the one that makes the
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  most sense to me, and so I'm just going to run through the Pro
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  Football Focus did a full seven round mock draft, and I think there's probably
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  I probably don't need to explain to you the you know, exact utility of
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  a full seven round mock draft and how accurate each of these sixth round picks
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  are going to be. Probably not that acturate, Probably way too many moving
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  parts before that. But I do find these useful in terms of just sort
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  of understanding where generally, broadly speaking, guys are being considered as likely to
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  get picked. So they had Marvin Harrison fourth overall the Cardinals, As Kevin
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  said earlier that I think that's sort of a pretty industry consensus at this point.
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  Barring a trade Mike Hall sixty ninth overall to the LA Chargers, that
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  would be early third round. Kate Stover and Tommy Eickenberg. They have them
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  picked four spots apart, one hundred and fifteenth overall to the Bengals in round
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  four for Kate Stover, one hundred and nineteenth overall to the Patriots in round
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  four for Tommy Eikenberg. Tommy Eicherberger and a Patriots uniform feels pretty spiritually accurate.
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  I think then they had Steel Chambers two hundred and seventh overall to the
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  Broncos in the sixth round, Josh Proctor two hundred and twenty ninth overall to
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  the Raiders in the seventh round. Davier Johnson, that is a great shout.
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  I think that he is. He's one of those guys that does a
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  lot of the stuff that would maybe make you more likely to make a team
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  as an undrafted free agent. They do have him going undrafted. So those
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  are the six Buckeyes who they the Pro Football Focus mock draft has getting picked.
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  Michigan has. I didn't count up the Michigan picks, you know,
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  the industry consensus feels, you know, seems like it's somewhere in the neighborhood
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  of fifteen or so, like it might be the most picks ever for a
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  team or in that neighborhood at least. And this is one of those times
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  where it's good news tonight. It's not necessarily good news this fall because I
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  always go back Kevin to the nineteen ninety nine NFL Draft and the Buckeyes had
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  fourteen players taken, and it was like, wow, this is incredible,
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  this is you've never seen this many players taken. And then you have to
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  replace all those guys that fall, and that's that's not so easy. So
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  there are It does feel like, as you said earlier, there are a
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  lot of potential future first rounders on this Ohio State team coming up this fall,
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  not you know, only losing one first rounder this year and only potentially
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  losing six drafted players overall. That could actually be very good news for Ohio
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  State in just a few months, just a few months, but you know,
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  and then we take it a year further and we're talking about the same
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  situation for Ohio State that you kind of mentioned there for Michigan in terms of
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  having to replace everybody. But yeah, we're going to have to find our
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  way to Green Bay in three hundred and sixty five days or whenever the twenty
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  five draft is, because it's going to be chok full of Buckeyes. But
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  for this twenty four season, which none of us want to fast forward through.
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  Hell, I don't want to fast forward through the summer. Let's I
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  know, we're one hundred and twenty eight days or whatever away from the Akron
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  game. But I don't I don't want to give up the summer quite yet.
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  But yeah, it's going to be a team that's going to be deep
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  on deep on talent. Because we talk about, okay, recruiting stars,
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  picking up a three or four or five out of high school, it is
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  completely different keeping your fourth year senior defensive end or your you know, your
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  fifth year senior cornerback or whatnot. I mean, how many stars is that
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  worth? Eight stars? I mean, we don't even have that necessarily on
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  the scale. But we're talking about a twenty one year old, twenty two
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  year old young man compared to like a seventeen year old kid. So there's
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  not going to be as much viewership from Buckeye Nation on this NFL draft as
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  they're going to be in other years, just based on the thin numbers and
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  maybe the lack of names and everything else. But I think it just means
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  that twenty four is going to be a hell of a ride from the Buckeyes.
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  It sure feels like it's shaping up that way. And I think there
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  were a lot of people came out coming out of the spring, coming out
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  of the NFL Draft declaration process, coming out of the transfer portal process.
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  Feeling pretty good about wor Ohio State stands for this fall. I don't know
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  that anything anything has changed on that front. Should be a pretty exciting summer
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  end fall. Don't, as Kevin said, don't wish that summer away.
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  But in one hundred and twenty eight days we'll be back in the horseshoe watching
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  the Buckeyes tick on Akron in the season opener. Then the NFL Draft starts
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  Thursday night at eight o'clock. You can find that on SPN. Should be
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  it should be an interesting night, hopefully a hopefully a good night for Marvin
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  Harrison Junior. Always a really well respected, good good guy, hard worker.
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  Great to see that payoff for him tonight. We'll be watching that,
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  and then we'll be watching the rest of the Ohio State football calendar start to
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  turn the pages as we go through the recruiting season and the camp season and
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  all that fun stuff where as we head into the into the fall, and
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  we'll be doing that all at bucke huddle dot com. That's where Kevin Tony
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  Nike over the team, Mark covers recruiting, got our whole team of ex's
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  and nose gurus making you a smarter football fan, all at bucke huddle dot
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  com and at YouTube dot com slash Buckey Huddle. That'll do it for today.
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  Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll
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  talk to you tomorrow